And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said, lift up now thine eyes, and see,.... This was all visionary, Jacob was still in a dream; but it was so impressed upon his mind, that he was spoke to, and bid to observe, and take notice,…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
Adam Clarke
The angel of God spake unto me in a dream - It is strange that we had not heard of this dream before; and yet it seems to have taken place before the cattle brought forth, immediately after the…
Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle's service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and…
Cambridge Bible
And the angel of God The vision combines the account of the events connected with the wages in Gen 30:31-42 with the mention of the Divine word to Jacob in Gen 31:31.
Notice the frequent use of "God"…
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